Differentiating through big data and changing collaboration in business through social media: this week we talk to Jonathan Boylan, chief technology officer at FINEOS, the Dublin-based insurance and claims software maker.
22.Feb.2013 06:00
Ireland’s information security capability will be on show at the RSA 2013 Conference again this year, with seven companies hoping to promote their own wares and make the case for Ireland as a centre of excellence in security.
21.Feb.2013 17:08
Dublin-based Trilogy Technologies has been listed in the Nine Lives MSPmentor 501, a distinguished list and report identifying the world’s top managed service providers.
21.Feb.2013 14:23
Apple has confirmed that a small number of its employees’ computers were attacked as a result of a vulnerability in the Java browser plug-in, but said that there was no evidence any data left the company.
20.Feb.2013 08:57
Security player Mandiant has produced a report that purports to show China’s secret cyber armies being built up. It says it has been tracking a single organisation called APT1, which has been conducting a cyber-espionage campaign since 2006.
19.Feb.2013 07:04
Awareness of data protection requirements is increasing in Ireland, with 80pc of a survey group saying they now have a named person responsible for this area in their organisations.
18.Feb.2013 14:31
Social networking giant Facebook has confirmed that it has been the victim of an attack by hackers. It says several of its engineers’ computers were hacked using a zero-day Java attack, but has ruled out the likelihood that any of its 1bn users’ data has been compromised.
16.Feb.2013 08:44
E-Services and Communications Credit Union, the credit union for Ireland’s communications industry for more than 50 years and which has €170m under management, has deployed a virtualised infrastructure and data-recovery system to underpin its investment in e-banking services.
15.Feb.2013 14:57
Companies where IT collaborates closely with senior business leaders are four times more likely to be successful than peer organisations where those relationships are broken, a new worldwide survey indicates.
15.Feb.2013 09:14
From gas to cloud: the IT technical services and system administrator at Dublin Bay Power Plant (DBPP) John Dolan explains how a gas turbine generation facility has embraced cloud services while pursuing a sustainability agenda.
15.Feb.2013 08:58
Another iOS 6 issue has been discovered and this one allows someone to access the dialler app, full contact list and call history from the lock screen by following a few simple steps.
14.Feb.2013 15:29
Brian Honan of BH Consulting has been shortlisted for ‘Information Security Person of the Year’ in the prestigious SC Magazine awards.
13.Feb.2013 17:00
New guidelines on staying secure when using e-commerce and cloud services have been published by an open forum for developing payment card security standards.
13.Feb.2013 14:44
US President Barack Obama has signed an executive order that will bolster America’s cyber security defences through partnership with critical infrastructure providers.
13.Feb.2013 12:18
Cyber-criminals will be taking advantage of this Valentine’s Day to trick internet users with fake files, links and e-cards designed to extract users’ personal data, warns the anti-malware laboratory of Panda Security PandaLabs.
13.Feb.2013 06:00
A TV station in Montana became the subject of the latest hacker hoax when hackers broke into its emergency alert system and issued a warning to thousands of TV viewers that the dead were rising from their graves and attacking the living.
12.Feb.2013 12:52
